Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Settling Australian and New Zealand Horror Movies on the Map
This Australasian horror editorial is an important step forward in putting Australian and New Zealand horror movies on the map…
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The Study of Art Historiography as an Academic Discipline
This month’s editorial shares some light on our expansion as an Open Access medium, giving some insights regarding the recent…
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The Rise of Obscene Public Anatomy in Victorian London
Dr Joseph Kahn’s Anatomical and Pathological Museum was the nineteenth-century’s best-known and most visited public museum of anatomy.
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Festival Rock al Parque Confirms Deicide’s Irreligious Presence
Festival Rock al Parque confirms Deicide as one of the opening extreme metal acts and one of the most radical…
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Understanding Gothic Studies, Genre, and Academic Subculture
Gothic studies, the specialist academic field that explores the Gothic text, has developed substantially over the last twenty-five years.
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The Bubonic Plague and Other Natural Catastrophes
The decade of the 540s formed one of the major caesuras of Roman history. How should we assess the setbacks…
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An Aesthetic Religion of Shadows and the Cult of the Dark
The belief system that holds the core of the dark weltanschauung can be summarized in a few fundamental ideas about…
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Gothic: New Directions in Media and Popular Culture
In a field of study as well-established as the Gothic, it is surprising how much contention there is over precisely…
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The Will to Understand Witchcraft and Magic in This Era
The origins of magic were already being debated in antiquity, and histories of the witch trials appeared in Europe before…
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Halloween Newsstands Behind the Keepers of the Culture
Until the late nineteenth-century, Halloween amounted to barely anything more than a couple of informational inches of column space in…
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Celebrating its Eighth Anniversary Through Utopias
From a modest beginning, when the medium was founded eight years ago, we established a tradition in which each monthly…
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Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque
Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian festivals such as Festival Rock al Parque…
